An worker of a Brooklyn homeless shelter was brutally stabbed exterior the ability on Thursday evening, say police.

The ghastly incident unfolded at a Days Inn lodge that had been transformed right into a shelter by town on East New York Avenue within the Brownsville neighborhood.

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Migrants arrive on the Roosevelt Resort in Manhattan, New York on Tuesday, July 25, 2023. (Julia Bonavita/Fox Information Digital )

The nonetheless unnamed worker, 35, got here beneath assault at roughly 6:20 p.m., and subsequently bumped into the constructing for assist. He was stabbed a number of occasions within the neck and stomach, and was bleeding profusely within the foyer upon the arrival of medics, who transported him to Brookdale Medical Middle, the place he was pronounced lifeless.

Emergency Medical Workforce of the Fireplace Division of New York (Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Pictures)

Police are in search of a male suspect, wearing black, who was sporting a baseball cap and ski masks.

As of but, there isn’t any info on what precipitated the grotesque assault, however the space has seen a number of accommodations transformed into housing for the homeless, and has handled a fair proportion of violent crime up to now.

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One neighbor said in remarks to the New York Put up that, “They turned all of the accommodations round right here into shelters throughout COVID. There are 4 or 5 extra round right here. A whole lot of stabbings. A whole lot of bother.”

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New York Metropolis has been grappling with violent crime on its streets and public transport, an issue solely exacerbated by a surge of unlawful immigrants arriving with out shelter. Mayor Eric Adams has repeatedly expressed frustration with the federal authorities and argued that town lacks the sources to look after them.

Since April of 2022, an estimated 220,000 migrants have poured into town, with over 58,000 at present being cared for by New York Metropolis’s taxpayers, per reviews from Metropolis Corridor.